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Subject: [OM] Re: film development tank
From: Garth Wood <garth@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 13 Jan 2004 10:20:31 -0700
At 12:23 PM 1/13/2004 +1100, you wrote:
>Spent years teaching High School kids to use Patersons (not my 
>choice) - eventually found the trick. They suggest cutting the 
>corners off the lead - I leave the tongue out and actually round off 
>the end and cut a very thin 1mm taper on the tip for about 2-3mm (not 
>too much or it will jump the rails). I found that having done that I 
>could feed a 24exp film in just by pushing it so long as the reel is 
>perfectly dry, without the need for the steel balls. I became a 
>Paterson convert.

Yep.  That's the trick I learned almost 30 years ago.  Works beautifully.


Garth



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